About

Rounak Tikmani is a highly motivated and skilled Machine Learning Engineer with a passion for data science and machine learning. Currently working with Zomato's Machine Learning team as a Software Development Engineer, Rounak has demonstrated strong managerial and leadership skills, making him an invaluable asset to the team. Rounak's expertise in Computer Vision (OCR), Data Science (Fraud detection), and NLP (Embedding clustering) has led to significant improvements in Zomato's product offerings. His work on optical character recognition using tools such as Tesseract, keras_ocr, and attention_ocr has helped improve the accuracy of Zomato's OCR technology. Additionally, his work on fraud detection at the user level using tools such as Feature Selection and Extraction, MLflow with Fast-API Model development, and Vegeta Load Testing has made Zomato's platform more secure. Rounak has also used various available libraries, including sentence BERT, Word2Vec, and Para2Vec, to cluster embeddings and used Density-based Scanning for clustering and t-SNE for projecting embeddings to two-dimensional data for visualization of clusters. Rounak has previously worked as a Product Analyst and Business Analyst at Zomato, where he introduced several improvements and experiments that made the product a grand success by analytics of the product. He reduced under-delivery of clicks, implemented a solution that decreased UD considerably, and created several tableau and Redash dashboards using Presto-SQL for analyzing the data in the best possible way and taking appropriate actions. Rounak holds a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and has relevant experience of 2.28 years. He has a strong technical background in ML, Software Engineering, SQL, BERT, Keras, NLP, Computer Vision, TensorFlow, Scikit, Python, Pytorch, AWS, ETL, OpenCV, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Object detection, GPT, Object Detection, Apache Airflow, Docker, Pandas, MySQL, Search, and Web. In summary, Rounak Tikmani is a talented Machine Learning Engineer with a proven track record of success in the field of data science. His expertise in various technologies and his managerial skills make him an asset to any team.